Goal To create a fun, video-game-like environment for exploring the local universe of stars through a mix of guided instruction and free-form interaction so as to educate about the relative distances of the stars we see and the planets in our Solar System, the three dimensional distribution of the stars in the sky, and to build intuition about how apparent brightness of the stars changes with d...

Memory-mapped transactions combine the advantages of both memory mapping and transactions to provide a programming interface for concurrently accessing data on disk without explicit I/O or locking operations. This interface enables a programmer to design a complex serial program that accesses only main memory, and with little to no modification, convert the program into correct code with multip...

Shear-Thickening Fluids (STFs) are a special Non-Newtonian Fluid that act like a solid when they experience a force. A simple example of this is a mixture of cornstarch and water. In this experiment, I text this mixture’s STF properties by using a ball drop to simulate an impact. By varying the ball drop height (and thus the force upon impact), and observing the bounce height, I determined wher...

In this paper a four-ball-best-ball (4BBB) model for pairs of golf players is set up. The 4BBB match-play scoring system is seen to satisfy a basic requirement of fairness. It is shown that it is not strictly possible to rate individual players as 4BBB players. However, a (reasonably broad) class of individual players is identified such that it is possible to rate them individually as 4BBB play...

simulation of grinding circuits has being performed from 30 years ago and is also to be more complete and powerful approach with improvement of mathematical models which simulate various processing units/machines. the modeling and simulation of various mineral processing circuits are presently performed. in order to simulate the present grinding circuits of esfordi phosphate processing plant, a...

in this research, the efficiency of the comminution circuit as well as the efficiency of size classification equipment of the concentrator plant 2 of sarcheshmeh copper complex was studied. the comminution circuit of this plant includes one sag mill in a closed circuit with a vibrating screen and one ball mill with a size classification system of hydrocyclone. the goal of this work was to calcu...

Simulation of grinding circuits has being performed from 30 years ago and is also to be more complete and powerful approach with improvement of mathematical models which simulate various processing units/machines. The modeling and simulation of various mineral processing circuits are presently performed. In order to simulate the present grinding circuits of Esfordi Phosphate processing plant, a...

The ALFA system provides seven beams that potentially allow a high degree of discrimination against radio frequency interference (RFI) that enters the telescope optics on axis (or nearly so) along with celestial signals. However, it is well known that interfering signals, artificial and solar, enter the telescope optics indirectly. As with any antenna, radiation can scatter into the feed from a...